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Gary Skipp’s Scalextric Tuning Tips - woodcote - 12th-Dec-19

Gary has written some tune-up tips for the Scalextric Advent Calendar over the past few years, but this year he appears alongside Scalextric Test Track’s presenter Mike in a comprehensive 23 minute video to help get the most out of your Scalextric cars...

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RE: Gary Skipp’s Scalextric Tuning Tips - Scuderia_Turini - 12th-Dec-19

Great video, Gary did a good job there, clear speech and confident handling the gear.  Mike was a bit fidgety...

Surprised that there were no dire H&S warnings as young kids will find this.

Leo

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RE: Gary Skipp’s Scalextric Tuning Tips - ScorpiusWireless - 24th-Jan-26

Apart from tyres I can’t see the point in tuning a magnet car to be honest.

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RE: Gary Skipp’s Scalextric Tuning Tips - Kevan - 25th-Jan-26

(24th-Jan-26, 11:24 PM)ScorpiusWireless Wrote:  Apart from tyres I can’t see the point in tuning a magnet car to be honest.

The only magnet cars we race are in our bi-monthly Saturday Scalextric Club (intended for beginners and possible beginners).

We use standard Scaley cars with the kit magnet, swap the rear tyres for NSR reds (unglued/untrued) and the best cars are the newer inlines, smooth and quiet.

The kit magnet does give a noticeable downward force on our wood track with magnetic braid but nowhere near the downward force you'd get on plastic track with steel rails.

We started using these Saturdays as workshops, going through the basics that Gary covers plus other basics to get the guys up to speed...and the cars go better with tuning.

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